Last Saturday night Jenny was walking through a mall in London , texting on her phone. She wasn’t watching where she was going , so she fell into a sewer (下水道) and got trapped. Luckily she didn’t hurt badly. She quickly climbed out and walked away. But her accident was caught on a mall camera. Then someone posted it on YouTube. The video was viewed almost 2 million times and received national attention. Jenny was angry with this, but she learned a deep lesson: Texting while walking is dangerous. This time I just fell into a sewer. Next time I didn’t know what would happen. Maybe I would be knocked down by a car or something else. It was horrible.
Jenny may be famous for her mistake. After that, she was laughed at by her friends and workmates. She regretted what she had done. But it was too late. However, she wasn’t the only one who got into trouble while texting on the phone. In 2008, more than 1000 Englishmen visited hospital for similar reasons. They were walking and texting or talking on the phone. Suddenly a wall appeared! Or a hole or something like that got in the way. There were cuts, bumps, broken bones and even worse result happened on them.
So we must be careful when we are walking. Don’t send messages or talk with somebody on the phone while walking. Or you may hurt yourself and become another Jenny in the future.The story happened in ______ last Saturday night.
| A．China | B．America | C．England | D．Canada |
Jenny’s accident received national attention because______.
| A．she posted the accident video on YouTube |
| B．her accident was caught on a small camera |
| C．her accident video was on TV |
| D．her accident video on YouTube was viewed almost 2 million times |
The underline word “regretted” here means ______.
| A．高兴 | B．后悔 | C．以…为自豪 | D．为… 伤心 |
In 2008 ,______ had the similar accident like Jenny and visited hospital in her country.
| A．nobody | B．a few people | C．many people | D．millions of people |
What’s the best title of this passage?
| A．An Unforgettable Lesson |
| B．A Horrible Accident |
| C．Texting on the Phone While Walking |
| D．Don’t Send Message While Walking |
任务型阅读。
A lift is very useful. It looks like a small room. It goes up and down all day. Sometimes a worker stands in the lift. He or she operates（操作） it up and down. In modern lifts there's no worker. People walk in. They know what floor they want to go. They push a button(按钮)and the lift goes to that floor. It's very fast and easy.
Lifts are very important to us. Why? Think about a tall building. Maybe it has twenty floors. Maybe it has fifty or more. Who can walk up all the stairs (楼梯 )?Maybe people can climb them once. Can someone climb thirty floors to an office every day? Can small children walk up to their rooms on the twenty-four floor? Can their mothers or fathers carry food up to all those stairs? Of course not. We can have very high buildings because we have lifts. We could not have all the beautiful tall buildings without lifts. Because it is too tired for people to climb the stairs every day.
根据短文的意思回答问题或完成句子。 What does a worker do when he or she stand in the lift?
____________Can small children walk up to their room on the twenty-four floor?
____________Why do we have many high buildings?
____________
Mr. Smith works in an office. He’s very busy and has no time to have a good rest. Every evening, when he comes back from his office, he’s always tired and wants to go to bed early. But his wife often has a lot of interesting things to tell him after supper. She doesn’t stop talking until she falls asleep.
One day Mr. Smith felt terrible and couldn’t go to work. He decided to go to see a doctor. And Mrs. Smith went to the hospital with him. Before her husband said what was the matter with him, she had told the doctor all and the doctor understood why. He wrote out a prescription (药方). And when Mrs. Smith brought the medicine to the resulting room (门诊室), The doctor said to her, “The bottle of medicine is for your husband and the pills are for you.”
“For me?” Mrs. Smith said in surprise. “I’m fine. I don’t need any medicine!”
“I don’t think so, madam,” said the doctor. “They are sleeping pills. Your husband will soon be all right if you take them.”Mr. Smith is ____________.
| A．too busy to have a good rest |
| B．too busy to have a good time |
| C．busy enough to have a good rest |
| D．too busy to enjoy himself |
“His wife doesn’t stop talking until she falls asleep” means “____________”.
| A．She doesn’t stop talking when she falls asleep |
| B．She doesn’t stop talking after she falls asleep |
| C．She keeps talking until she falls asleep |
| D．She stops talking before she falls asleep |
Why does Mr. Smith have to get up when his wife is asleep in the morning?
| A．Because he can’t fall asleep. |
| B．Because he has to go to work. |
| C．Because he doesn’t want to sleep. |
| D．Because he has to see a doctor. |
The doctor meant that her husband would be all right if _______________.
| A．her husband took the pills. |
| B．she took the bottle of medicine |
| C．she and her husband took the bottle of medicine |
| D．she stops talking too much at night |
| Channel 1（一频道） |
Channel 2 |
| 18:00 Around China |
17:45 Computers today |
| 18:30 Children’s programmer |
18:10 Foreign arts |
| 19:00 News |
18:30 Modern English |
| 19:30 Weather report |
19:00 Animal world |
| 19:40 Around the world |
19:25 In Asia |
| 20:10 TV play: Sisters |
20:20 Sports |
| 21:00 English for today |
21:00 Sports player: Yao Ming |
| 21:15 Pop music |
21:45 English news |
| 21:55 Talk show |
22:05 On TV next week |
You’ll know something about _____ at 19:00 on Channel 2.
| A．animals | B．news |
| C．foreign arts | D．Asia |
If you want to watch NBA, the best programmer for you would be ______.
| A．Sports | B．Around the world |
| C．Foreign arts | D．English news |
“Modern English” is a programmer that ______.
| A．teaches you English |
| B．tells you something about English classroom |
| C．lets you know English news |
| D．makes foreign friends |
People use money to buy food, books and hundreds of other things they need. When they work, they usually get paid in money.
Most of the money used today is made of metal or paper. But in ancient (古代的) time people often used all kinds of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells (贝壳).
In China, cloth and knives were used as money. Elephant tusks (象牙), monkey tails and salt were used in some pans of Africa (非洲). Rice was also a kind of money used by the ancient people in some islands.
Cows and other animals were used as money, too.
The first copper coins(硬币) were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the center. Different countries have used different metals for their money. Later, some countries began to make coins of gold and silver (银). But gold and silver were heavy to carry when people needed a lot of coins to buy something expensive. The Chinese were the first to use paper money. The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today.
Money has had an interesting story from the days of shell money till today.People usually use money .
| A．to buy gold |
| B．to get something they want |
| C．to buy shells |
| D．to buy something expensive |
In the past ,the ancient (古代的)Chinese used to have cloth and knives ____.
| A．as a tool | B．as money |
| C．as a gift | D．as a kind of goods |
was also a kind of money used by the people on some islands．
| A．Gold | B．Animals |
| C．Rice | D．Knives |
The first paper money ___.
| A．looked like the same as the paper money used today |
| B．looked interesting |
| C．looked like a note |
| D．had a square hole in the center |
Betty is an American school girl. She is very happy because her parents will take her to China for a visit. They are going to fly from New York on June 30 and get to Beijing on July 1. They will stay at Lido Holiday Inn. Their Chinese friends will show them around Beijing. They are going to visit the Palace Museum, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall. They will also visit some Chinese homes and try some Chinese food. They will spend a week in Beijing and then go to Xi’an, Guilin and some other places for sightseeing. The whole trip will take three weeks and she is sure she will have a great time in China. Betty is very happy because she will _______ with her parents.
| A．visit New York | B．go home |
| C．watch TV | D．visit China |
Their _______ friends will show them around Beijing.
| A．Australian | B．Chinese |
| C．American | D．pen |
From the text we can know that they will _______ in Beijing.
| A．cook Chinese food | B．speak Chinese |
| C．try some Chinese food | D．play games |
After they visit Beijing, they will go to _______.
| A．Xi’an and Guilin | B．The Summer Palace |
| C．Shanghai | D．the Great Wall |